Metal container



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.INVENTOR jiL..57 e/'ae/ ATTORNEY @etented Ettiey 25?, 192% noon 1.. seamen, or nnnmvl'rim, new Janene.

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Applicationhled may 10, 1922. Serial R0. 555,688.

To all whom it may cancem: Be it known that'IfH't o'o L. S'rnronn, a citizen of'the United States, and a resident of Belleville, in the county of Essex and B'Stete of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful- Improvements in a Metal Container, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the 10 present invention has in view are: To lock the cover of metai' containers in service; to provide a reliable lock for said cover secure against displacement-in serviceg'to automatically reinovethe. cover of metal 15 hoxes when releasing the same from locked position; to provide means incorporated in the structure of boxes which operate to lift the cover from its service position when and as the same is released from its locked 2 position; and to simplify and cheapen the construction.

D mil/2'71 gs. -Figu-re 1' is a side view of abox con- 25 structed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, the cover thereof being shown as in closed locked position.

Figure 2 is a similar view showing the cover in its released position.

Figure 3 is a top planiview; of the same, the cover being partly cut away'to show the construction of the container.

Description.

35 Though-the invention herein shown is applicable to various forms and sizes of boxes adapted for containing a varietyof articles, I have preferred to show the emhodiment'of the invention as applied to so bones of the character inwhich blacking for the variouspolishing creams are purveyed. These boxes are usually provided with a somewhat shallow body 8 to rein-- elevating element of the cover.

lower generally raw edge of the flange 1d thereof.

The bead 11 may be employed or dispensed with at will. Generally the annular as surface of'this edge is serrated to facilitate the Vgrip of the hand of the '0 erator.

l hen constructed in accor ance with the present invention, the ridge 9 is made double-ended, the ends approximating to'ew furnish a space 12 which is occupied in service by'the tongue 13. The tongue 13 constitutes both the locking element e; the

To this endthe recess 14 isprovided at the forwardflos end of the tongue 13 which engages in service-the end 15 of the ridge 9. The lock 'formed. thereby is suf'ficientvto prevent the -fian'ge 10, the adjustment whereof does not ,70

permit accidental disadjustment off the cover on the body of the container. The edge of the tongue 13 is shaped to form the cam16. The cam 16 is'shaped as shown best in Fig. 1 of the drawings so' that the rise of the cam begins at a distance from the end 17 of the ridge 9 equal to the depth of'the recess 14. This feature of the construction permits the cover to be retractively turned a distanw equiv alentto the depth of said recess before the cam 16 starts to ride the end 17 of the ridge. VVhe'n the cover is completely retracted the top of the cam will be seen to rest on the end 1? of the ridge 9 with the result that the cover has been substantially lifted from itsactive position in which it can be easily lifted from thehody of the cam.

It will be understood that while I have shown the construction embodying the ridge 9 which approximately completely surrounds the body of the'cam, this may be dispensed with, substituting therefor, projections to take the place of the ends 15 and 17 of the said ridge.

It will also be understood thiit while I have shown the invention as providing one tongue 13 and one space 12, this can be varied by employing a plurality of tongues we I and spaces, but I have found thatfor all purposes the close in the flange 10 requirw "only one tongne to-floch it. firmly in position. Also by the single tongue and the single opening, less care in a'just iing the tongue to its service position is required n than'inight entail in the use of more than oneztongne c a hoiilis constructed and arranged as herein disclosed, the'operation ofclos ung the hox' "requires only that the cover in shall be'edjnsted iii-position with the tongue 13 in line with or, slightly at the rear of the soa'ce 12.. en the tongue is intro duced into'the space 12, the rear end of i the cam 16 win he iound to engage the end 1 17 of the ridge Q. As the cover is brought to its seat where the lowerjedge or the den rests upon'tbe ridge eh it is rotats, moving the front edwezof the cam toward the end of the ridge. 4 When the opening end of the recess'ld lain line with the end-15 of the ridge 9 it 'will be foundthat the fulledge ofthe flange/ 10i rests senses which the cover cut from the usual metal sheets. It will" silso be observed that the tongue 1,3 does not increase the size or space occupied by the boshaving no projection beyond the ridge 9' with which the box-body is reinforced.

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3b A metal container comprising a body portion having a cylindrical open endg'a cylindrical removable cover therefor and means locking said cover and body in ser-A vice adapted to force said cover from saidfi, containenwhen releasing same, said means H embodying a ridge spaced from the edge oi W said open end, and a member on said cover movable relative to said ridge tor engagement therewith, said memberbeing ads, ted for'rnovement in one direction for ice ing said cover and body, and for movement in 055 entirely onthe'ridge 9, the ham 1dhswing passed completely within the space 12. The

further-rotation of the cover/now intro. duces the end 15 firmlyto completely fill the recess 14, the engagement thereby effooted thereafter completely and perfectly locking the cover inservice position. 3Q When it is desired to remove the cover fromthe body of the box, this is accom -j the opposite direction to separate said cover and body v ,1 9. A metal container comprisin drical body portion havin .a deli a cylinle ended ridge;a-removable-cover avin means for W engaging 'one of said ridgeen sior movement thereby n opposite axial directions in correspondence with the movement oi. said cover in opposite rotary directions.

plished by retractivelyrotating the cover.

"At the initiation of the retraction the tongue 13 is moved the distance ofthe depth of the recess 14: before the lower edge of the cam 16 engages the end 17 of. the ridge -9. This insures the complete release of the end 15 of the ridge 9 by the tongue 13 and the recess 14 thereof, before the cam 16 begins the 7 co lift of the cover. From this point the cou- 3 tinned retraction of the cover causes the cam 16 to ride over the end 1? until the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings is obtained. From the position thus obtained it is obvious the'cover can be readily removed from the body of the cam.

It is obviousthat the construction has in mind the saving in material and cost of con strnction. The head 9 is usually provided and therefore the cost of construction of the body of the box is very slightly, if at all increased over the cost of the usual body of boxes. The flange 10 is upturned in the same manner as that usually employed in 55 the construction of'boxesand has the slight projection which forms a tongue 13. This tongue, together. with the rooms 14 is blanked in the same operation which blanks the metal from which the cover is formed,

so therefore, the total increase in the construction' is in the amount of metal wasted in forming the blank which it will be a ciated is'practically none, the tongue j'soarranged'as to absorb that metal which no wastage when the circular blank from preeing

3A metal container comprisin a cylinso drical body portion having a den leended ridgeya removablecover having means for engaging one of said ridge ends for move ment thereby in-opposite axial directions in correspondence with the movement of said we cover in opnosito rotary' directions, said means embodying an integral extension arranged to extend between said ridgeends for engaging the one below the same, and the other above, for locking the cover in closed res position, and for lifting it to open position, respectively. a V

4. A metal container comprisin a cylindrical body portion having a den 1e ended said ridge ends to lock the cover in posino" tion. r I

5. A metal container comprising a cylindrical body portion, a doubleended ridge on said body portion, 'a removable cover, and

an extension on said cover adapted to rest between the ends of said ridge for insertion below one of said ends to lock the cover, said extension being formed to ride over the a other of said ends to iorce'said cover from its seat, v

6. A metalcontainer comprising a cylindrical body portion having an open upper end, a covertheretor, a seat on said body portion for said cover and disposed below the open end of saidbody por'tioman extentoo sion carried by said cover and adapted to a engage said seat to lock said cover on the body, and means on said extension .for en- 'ng said seat to lift said cover from the y on rotation of the cover. 7. A metal e ontainer comprisin a cylindrical body portion, a double en ed ridge formed thereon in a plane perpendicular to the axis thereof, a removable cover adapted 10 to Seat on said ridge, an extension on said cover to rest between the ends of said ridge, 7 send extension being recessed atone edge for en a ng one end of said ridge on rotation 0 t e eover in one direetion and cam shaped on its opposite edge for engagin the other end of said ridge to-force sai cover from its seat on rotation of said cover in an opposite direction. g 1

HUGO L. STEIDEL. 

